Utah Jazz vs. OKC Thunder: Game 1 live blog

Chase Thompson and Preston Truman of North Salt Lake City show off their Jazz gear prior to watching the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder play in game one of the NBA playoffs in Oklahoma City on Sunday, April 15, 2018.

Sure the first-round playoff series between the Jazz and Thunder is much bigger than an individual matchup between a star rookie and the reigning MVP, but boy, oh boy, will they be fun to watch. Westbrook enters the postseason after becoming the first in history to average a triple-double for an entire season in back-to-back years while Mitchell has carried the Jazz to a fifth seed while breaking Damian Lillard’s NBA rookie record for 3-pointers made as the team’s scoring leader.